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What SQL knowledge do managers need for decision support queries?by Dan PowerStructured Query Language (SQL) is considered difficult for most managers to learn and use. SQL is a complex language with many capabilities, but managers can learn to manipulate and retrieve data in a decision support query. The knowledge of SQL needed by a manager is limited.Read

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2009 Joint SIGDSS and Teradata University Network workshop and congressDec. 15, 2009, Phoenix, ArizonaThe 2009 Business Intelligence Congress provides a first-of-its-kind collaborative opportunity! Join academic professionals and industry representatives who share a common passion for research and education innovation in the field of business intelligence.

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Streamline Health to provide business process management solutions to leading Texas-Based pediatric hospital.Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: STRM), announced today that one of the best pediatric hospitals in the nation, as designated by U.S. News and World Report, has implemented the first of several Streamline Health Business Process Management (BPM) workflow solutions.

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SAP(R) BusinessObjects(TM) business intelligence solutions provide Makosi Consultants with insight to improve efficiency and client service.SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that Makosi, an international project management firm, is using SAP(R) BusinessObjects(TM) business intelligence (BI) solutions to provide better visibility into its work with global financial institutions. Makosi uses Xcelsius(R) software, the SAP dashboarding and data visualization solution, to help its clients identify trading compliance risks and flag those that are most immediate and severe.

MicroStrategy augments OEM program with new product capabilities for SaaS companies.MicroStrategy(R) Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it has enhanced its OEM program with new product capabilities for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies.

Railinc selects Teradata to bring business intelligence to North American freight rail operations.Railinc Corporation, the leading provider of hosted IT services for the rail industry, is launching a new, state-of-the-art, Web-based business intelligence service. At the center of the new service is a Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance from Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the world's largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics.